The rest of the kristallnacht story:
November 9, 1938 – November 10, 1938
Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a member of the German nobility, a Nazi Party member, and German Foreign Office diplomat.
He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided a pretext for Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass”.